askmen
June 23, 2014
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
askmen.com, a portal with more than 14 million readers in the US alone, is the victim of a mass-injection attack with multiple versions of the official website compromised to serve malware to its visitors.
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment
June 20, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) is the victim of a targeted attack carried on through a specifically crafted malware distributed via a spear phishing campaign.
Synology NAS Boxes
June 13, 2014
•[ financial, malware, technology ]
Dell SecureWorks reveals that unknown hackers were able to hijack Synology NAS Boxes for mining Dogecoin, reaping $620,000 in two months.
Power Equipment Direct
June 2, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Power Equipment Direct (PED) notifies an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been accessed when the server that handles the company's checkout process was infected with malware.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
April 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
About 55,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (vfw.org) may have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, compromised after an unauthorized party gained access to a VFW web server using a remote access trojan.
LaCie
April 15, 2014
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
LaCie confirms in a statement that malware successfully made its way through to access sensitive customer information stemming from transactions on its website. Virtually everyone who shopped on LaCie's website in the last year is at risk.
Anonymous
April 13, 2014
•[ hack, leak, espionage ]
Israeli hackers attacked computers belonging to Anonymous and allied hacker groups, taking pictures with exploited webcams and posting the photos online.
Spec's
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
About 550,000 customers, as well as employees of Spec's may have had personal information compromised in a malware attack that impacted 34 locations (and dates back to Oct. 31, 2012).
University of Wisconsin Parkside
March 28, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
About 15,000 University of Wisconsin-Parkside (UW-Parkside) students are notified that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised by hackers who installed malware on a server.
El Agave Restaurant
March 26, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Over 200 credit and debit card numbers stolen by hackers who installed malware on the point of sale system of El Agave Restaurant.
Rosenthal Wine Shop
March 21, 2014
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Rosenthal Wine Shop notifies customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information.
Citroen
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, malware, manufacturing ]
Citroen joins the list of the victims of the ColdFusion Vulnerability. The Guardian reveals that one of the carmaker's German websites was hacked to include a backdoor.
Valley View Hospital
March 17, 2014
•[ hack, financial, malware ]
Social Security numbers and payment card data is among the personal information that may have been compromised for about 5,400 patients of Colorado-based Valley View Hospital after a computer virus was identified on some hospital computers.
Kaiser Permanente
February 28, 2014
•[ leak, malware, healthcare ]
Health services provider Kaiser Permanente notifies roughly 5,100 members that their personal information may be at risk after malware was discovered on a server used by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.
Alaska Communications
February 27, 2014
•[ leak, malware, technology ]
Alaska Communications notifies an undisclosed number of current and former employees that their names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers may have been exposed when a company computer was infected with a malware.
Bitstamp
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Reuters reports that the virtual currency Bitcoin is being hit by attacks from unknown hackers sending "mutated" lines of code into the program that runs the virtual currency. Two exchanges, Bitstamp and Mt. Gox, are affected.
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
February 1, 2014
•[ espionage, malware ]
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a Belgian cryptographer, is an apparent victim of the NSA's Regin malware.
Israeli Defense Ministry
January 26, 2014
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Earlier in January, unknown hackers break into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software looking like it had been sent by the country's Shin Bet secret security service.
Edgepark Medical Supplies
January 16, 2014
•[ financial, malware, manufacturing ]
The information, including payment card data, of more than 4,200 individuals is inappropriately accessed after malware is introduced into the computer systems of Edgepark Medical Supplies.
